[Tony Bridge]

Looking at the wave form is the trick I’m using.. I’ve had no luck with PluralEyes. It must be something I’m doing, but it doesn’t come anywhere near syncing the various cameras together. I’m sure it’s something I’m missing (the cameras have all recorded different lengths of video, maybe that’s a problem, even though I’ve aligned them as close as possible…), so I’ll persevere, because the paradigm looks good.

Thanks for your input, Jeremy

[Tony Bridge]

Thanks for your very useful reply, Jeremy.

I have already downloaded the PluralEyes demo, and I’ll look at that this pm. Two reasons I went for Vegas Pro (apart from a colleague’s recommendation) were the Multicam feature and the support for more audio tracks than the 4 in Movie Studio.

Unfortunately, the decision to use multiple cameras was a last-minute decision when we discovered that we had several cameras with us, so no advance planning. I was aware that I would get problems in trying to sync everything together at the editing stage, but frankly I was worrying more about the up-coming concert (which, by the way, had an audience of some 1200, so we were… keyed-up and not thinking straight!). This is something we definitely want to do again, so will think about it beforehand and get some sort of clapper system going… or is there some trick that you video guys use? (I’m thinking cheap and cheerful here!)

The three cameras ran uninterrupted in the first half of the show, but with sound only recorded on two (I think the chap with the third assumed that the main desk feed would be the main audio, but in fact, it turns out be in mono, tsk) In the second half, two of the cameras failed, so we were left with just the picture from the centre of the auditorium, with a stereo audio, so that was probably the best one to have. Unfortunately, the young chap who was in charge of this camera during the second half thought he would do us a favour and stop the camera between each piece ::eyes roll::!

So, a lot of work… I decided yesterday to opt for the checkerboard (is this a video term?) option, which seems to be working fine, and the crossfades I can manage by pulling out the ends of the clips.